Wiseman40
03-11-2006, 11:11 PM
Blue Mage
Acquisition of Spells
Can only get new abilities with Blue Mage as main
Must Defeat enemy before ability can be learned
Must be able to get XP from a mob to learn a spell from it
Can't learn it if you die
Must be within a certain distance of the monster
Setting Spells
Must 'Set' a learned spell
Blue Mage has 'set-up' points, based on level
Each spell costs a certain number of 'set-up' points
In addition to 'set-up' points, a maximum number of spells can be set
All Blue Magic depends on monster types. If you learn a Bird Spell, you use it on monsters weak to Birds. Some abilities will be skillchainable and burst-able. Not all monster abilities will be available, but many will. More will be added with future patches.
It looks like you won't want to level too quickly. With this set up, blue mages will need to take a lot of time each level to make sure they have learned all the abilities they can from enemies, because if they outlevel them they will not be able to learn from them, and if it's a particularly important spell they may miss it completely or end up deleveling to get it.
Since you need to be able to kill it and get experience from it, you'll need to have a party to get certain spells sooner. A blue mage that tries to solo all the time will get vital spells much later.
Blue mages will need to make an effort to learn EVERY spell they can, which would be hundreds, and then set those spells to fit their situation.
I wonder if you have to be in your mog house to set spells...
Also with set up points... it SEEMS as though spells that are powerful relative to your level will be castable, but require more setup points, meaning you will have fewer spells. I expect them to take more mp as well.
This could make subbing blue mage very interesting. If all you need are a few spells from blue mage to make subbing it worthwhile, you may be able to get spells much higher level than 37.
Acquisition of Spells
Can only get new abilities with Blue Mage as main
Must Defeat enemy before ability can be learned
Must be able to get XP from a mob to learn a spell from it
Can't learn it if you die
Must be within a certain distance of the monster
Setting Spells
Must 'Set' a learned spell
Blue Mage has 'set-up' points, based on level
Each spell costs a certain number of 'set-up' points
In addition to 'set-up' points, a maximum number of spells can be set
All Blue Magic depends on monster types. If you learn a Bird Spell, you use it on monsters weak to Birds. Some abilities will be skillchainable and burst-able. Not all monster abilities will be available, but many will. More will be added with future patches.
It looks like you won't want to level too quickly. With this set up, blue mages will need to take a lot of time each level to make sure they have learned all the abilities they can from enemies, because if they outlevel them they will not be able to learn from them, and if it's a particularly important spell they may miss it completely or end up deleveling to get it.
Since you need to be able to kill it and get experience from it, you'll need to have a party to get certain spells sooner. A blue mage that tries to solo all the time will get vital spells much later.
Blue mages will need to make an effort to learn EVERY spell they can, which would be hundreds, and then set those spells to fit their situation.
I wonder if you have to be in your mog house to set spells...
Also with set up points... it SEEMS as though spells that are powerful relative to your level will be castable, but require more setup points, meaning you will have fewer spells. I expect them to take more mp as well.
This could make subbing blue mage very interesting. If all you need are a few spells from blue mage to make subbing it worthwhile, you may be able to get spells much higher level than 37.